DKCTL(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual DKCTL(8)
NAMEdkctl -- program to manipulate disks
SYNOPSISdkctldevice command [arg [...]]
DESCRIPTIONdkctl allows a user or system administrator to manipulate and configure
disks in various ways. It is used by specifying a disk to manipulate,
the command to perform, and any arguments the command may require.
COMMANDS
The following commands are supported:
getcache Get and display the cache enables for the specified
device.
setcachenone | r | w | rw [save]
Set the cache enables for the specified device. The
enables are as follows:
none Disable all caches on the disk.
r Enable the read cache, and disable all
other caches on the disk.
w Enable the write cache, and disable all
other caches on the disk.
rw Enable both the read and write caches
on the disk.
save If specified, and the cache enables are
savable, saves the cache enables in the
disk's non-volatile parameter storage.
synccache [force] Causes the cache on the disk to be synchronized,
flushing all dirty write cache blocks to the media.
If force is specified, the cache synchronization com-
mand will be issued even if the kernel does not
believe that there are any dirty cache blocks in the
disk's cache.
keeplabel [yes | no]
Specify to keep or drop the in-core disklabel on the
last close of the disk device. (Keep if yes is spec-
ified, drop if no is specified.)
badsectorflush | list | retry
Used for managing the kernel's bad sector list for
wd(4) devices. The software bad sector list is only
maintained if the option ``WD_SOFTBADSECT'' was spec-
ified on kernel configuration.
flush Clears the in kernel list of bad sec-
tors.
list Prints out the list of bad sector
ranges recorded by the kernel.
retry Flushes the in kernel list and then
retries all of the previously
recorded bad sectors, causing the
list to self update. This option canonly be used with character devices.
addwedgename startblk blkcnt ptype
Define a ``wedge'' on the specified disk starting at
block number startblk and spanning blkcnt blocks.
The wedge will have the volume name name and the par-
tition type ptype. Valid choices for ptype would be
unused, swap, ffs, lfs, ext2fs, cd9660, ados, hfs,
msdos, filecore, raidframe, ccd, appleufs, ntfs, and
cgd.
The device name of the virtual block device assigned
to the wedge will be displayed after the wedge has
been successfully created. See dk(4) for more infor-
mation about disk wedges.
delwedgedk Delete the wedge specified by its device name dk from
the specified disk.
getwedgeinfo Display information about the specified disk wedge.
listwedges List all of the wedges configured on the specified
disk.
strategy [name] Get and set the disk I/O scheduler (buffer queue
strategy) on the drive. If you do not provide a name
argument, the currently selected strategy will be
shown. To set the bufq strategy, the name argument
must be specified. name must be the name of one of
the built-in kernel disk I/O schedulers. To get the
list of supported schedulers, use the following com-
mand:
$ sysctl kern.bufq.strategies
SEE ALSOioctl(2), dk(4), sd(4), wd(4), disklabel(5), atactl(8), scsictl(8)HISTORY
The dkctl command first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.
AUTHORS
The dkctl command was written by Jason R. Thorpe of Wasabi Systems, Inc.
NetBSD 5.1 July 30, 2009 NetBSD 5.1

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